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Syria's Mufti: Islam Commands Us To Protect Judaism

12:15 19/01/2010

Syria's foremost Muslim leader declared on Tuesday that Islam commands its followers to protect Judaism, according to Army Radio."If the Prophet Mohammed had asked me to deem Christians or Jews heretics, I would have deemed Mohammed himself a heretic," Sheikh Ahmed Hassoun, the Mufti of Syria, was quoted as telling a delegation of American academics visiting Damascus.

Hassoun, the leader of Syria's majority Sunni Muslim community, also told the delegates that Islam was a religion of peace, adding: "If Mohammed had commanded us to kill people, I would have told him he was not a prophet." Religious wars were the result of politics infiltrating systems of faith, he said, asking:

"Was Moses of Middle Eastern or European descent? Was Jesus a Protestant or a Catholic? Was Mohammed Shi'ite or Sunni?"According to the Mufti, the conflict between Israel and its Arabs neighbors has nothing to do with an Islamic war against Judaism."Before you got American citizenship, and I got Syrian citizenship, we were all brothers under the dome of God," he said.

Jews had once lived in Syria peacefully and with fair treatment, he added, explaining that his own grandfather had a Jewish partner.

Either he's throwing up another smoke screen to obscure the violent truth, or else he's ushering in a set up circumstance to allow for a peace treaty with Israel...of the 7 year variety, I think.

"I do not seek to understand that I may believe, but I believe that I may understand: for this I also believe, that unless I believe I will not understand." --Anselm of Canterbury

Hebrews 12:3-4
For consider Him who endured such hostility from sinners against Himself, lest you become weary and discouraged in your souls. You have not yet resisted to bloodshed, striving against sin.

Are we reading this right? An Islamic Mufti saying this about Jews. It is true though that Islam once got along with Jews until Mohammed was turned down when he asked the Jews to convert to Islam. Then he turned on them viciously. I can't imagine that this Mufti is going to be around for very long.

1999

“The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people’s money.” Margaret Thatcher

"In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act." George Orwell

Don't forget the Muslims are EXPERTS at saying one thing in English for their enemies in the West to be deceived by, and remain quite true to their real Islamic beliefs when they speak in Arabic! They all recognize this as a legitimate tactic sanctioned in the Koran itself, known as taqqiya.

Don't forget the Muslims are EXPERTS at saying one thing in English for their enemies in the West to be deceived by, and remain quite true to their real Islamic beliefs when they speak in Arabic! They all recognize this as a legitimate tactic sanctioned in the Koran itself, known as taqqiya.

Exactly, thats what I was thinking. Not to mention, he makes this statement soon after Israel is once again quoted as saying they will strike Damascus, not Syria, but specifically Damascus...

No weapon that is formed against thee shall prosper; and every tongue that shall rise against thee in judgment thou shalt condemn... Isaiah 54.17
A thousand shall fall at thy side, and ten thousand at thy right hand; but it shall not come nigh thee.
Only with thine eyes shalt thou behold and see the reward of the wicked. Psalm 91:7-8
What shall we then say to these things? If God be for us, who can be against us? Romans 8:31